Aspies For Freedom

Would this be the "IAN" registry?  I heard about that on NPR this morning.  Creepy!

" I thought they did a very good job of dragging Autism through the dirt and mud, they didn't do much else than that.   "

AAAAAAAAUGH!! Exactly what everyone predicted.

PLEASE everybody -- hit the response page and kick some ***!

http://boards.oprah.com/WebX/.f151133

Well, I just tried to register but then it wanted contact info (actual e-mail address, to be verified).  Crap!  Forget that.  No wonder there aren't many people from here posting there.  (Terribly sorry, but I'm not "out" or even officially dx'ed yet.  Maybe one day...)

I was just going to tell "morbidcore" (message #934, "The ignorance of man...") that I liked her attitude, and that her post was a refreshing relief from all the drivel I had read up to that point.  And then, I was going to mention my RDOS score (AS: 123/200, NT: 77/200) and go into a rant about how I'm a successful IT professional with a master's degree, how it's not a "miracle" because I busted my @$$ for it like anyone else would have to, and how I did it all without the help of a bunch of bleeding hearts, curebies, or quacks.

If somebody who's already been posting on Oprah's site would please copy and paste this message there and tell "morbidcore" that she might like it here on aspiesforfreedom.com (if not already a member here, that is), I would really appreciate it.

Definitely on my to-do list. (Although I am skeptical about anything I post on there remaining.)

At the moment (Although I am reluctant to join any Oprah board, I will do anything for the cause!) I don't seem to be able to post there.

OK, I've said my piece on the forum... hopefully somebody reads it.

By the way, if you aren't "out" about your AS, just lie about your name and location and whatnot and get a Yahoo e-mail account to verify your registration on the Oprah board. Completely anonymous. (In fact, so anonymous that Nigerian scammers use 'em! Heh.)

BRAVO, CALLISTA!

Here's the transcript from "The View"

http://abc.go.com/daytime/theview/images...script.pdf

It's a bit of an effort to slog through all of the posts on Oprah's message board; there are more than 1600 of them and only a few are shown at a time.

That said, I've noticed that the overwealming majority of posters are the parents of autistic children, telling us all about how awful it is to be raising their kids.  There are the stories about how vaccinations "cause" autism.  And there are all sorts of crackpottery, concerning mudbaths to cleanse toxic metals out of a body or cures that "they" don't want you to know about.

After about an hour of wading through this jungle, I had to give up and make my way back to the base camp.  It was just too much to take.  I no longer had any desire to post a message on the Oprah board saying that it was ok to have Aspergers and that I was able to get a degree from a top university and have a successful career.  My small, still voice would be lost in the noise and chatter of a thousand braying donkeys.

i want to but it wouldnt let me.

Okay, I'll get that Yahoo account ready for the next time we encounter something like this.  At this point, I think it would be futile for me to go to all the trouble for this one stupid Oprah thread.

Oprah's trashy show has been around since the 1980s.  (I even watched it a few times when I was in high school.  It's that old.)  Her name is synonymous with "trash TV", "tabloid TV", etc.  Basically, it's an insult for anything to go on that show, which is why I hope they don't manage to pull off an episode about HFA and Asperger's, like many on her message board had suggested.  Because, simply being mentioned on Oprah's show would be an insult to Asperger's.  But of course, if they do have an Asperger's episode, I guess there will be some attention-craving parents who drag their kids on the show (Watch this, I bet I can make little Timmy have a meltdown! </sarcasm> ) along with some curebie-fied adult Aspies.

What disturbed me most was when parents of Aspie kids, specifically, whined about how devastated they were.  What's the problem, then?  Okay, so little Timmy isn't going to play football and &%$* the cheerleaders.  What, they don't want to at least try to raise an eccentric genius?  Maybe those particular parents should give their kids up for adoption so they can be raised by an engineer or a quantum physicist or something.

Maybe we should plan LAN parties around stuff like this, so a dozen or so of us at each LAN party can egg each other on as we post.

That's a kick below the belt!  Since they're so interested in fecal matter, I'd love to find out where that parent parks their car, sledge out the windshield, and take a dump right on their dashboard.  (Sorry if I'm being obnoxious tonight, but that was some very good (and potent) ale I drank a little while ago.)

amen.

"They" will never find the cause because...
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Posted by: 3victoria9

Nutter?

This was one that made me go "Oh, puleeze!!!"

I mean, no offence to Christians, but keep Christ out of it!!!

Anyway. I went to the message board. I signed up. I dunnit. (posted)

VENI VIDI SCRIPSI

Can't believe I'm now a member of Oprah.com. How sad is that?

And she really doesn't take into account how much the definition of "autism" has changed. I'd wager that even if there is a real increase, it is negligible.

Maybe we all ought to get Yahoo accounts, just so we'll be prepared to do things anonymously if we're still "in the closet", so to speak. I'm surprised some of you don't have anonymous e-mail accounts yet, really. I've probably had something like ten Yahoo accounts over the years, maybe more.

I'll be watching......WILL YOU?(sorry, just a little thing from this show I listen to. It's more funny if you know what it's from. And if you say it in a posh british accent.)

I saw this episode. Well, about 10 minutes of it. I had to turn it off because my brain was leaking out of my ears.
It was just the parents whining and crying about how horrible their lives are, and how they're "losing their children ".

I gave it another chance later, thinking maybe they'll have a positive outlook later on in the show, but I was disappointed once more. All i got was the one father saying that "now I'm a better person after learning to have patience and after going through this ordeal"....

And they didn't even have an Autistic on there.
Maybe the type they were talking about wouldn't be able to deal very well with the giant crowd and bright light and having to talk about it and stuff.
But then again, that's not the only type of autistic.

I flipped the TV off a couple times. The ol' one finger salute.
They need my mother on that show. And me. I actually thought up a pretty good reply to that episode.
Maybe I should put it on their site?

Good idea.

I was surprised some people replied to the post on the Oprah site and one agreed! That was cool. I would've thought that all the kind of people who post on Oprah site would be curebies. And lots of them were. (Lots more still think it's all to do with injections.)